Journal-box lid



Nov. 6 1923.

IN VEN TUR PETER 'BENUJXEN 4' ATTUHNE m Patented Nov. 6, 1923.

PETER BENDIXEN, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO BETTENIDORF COMPANY, OI BETTENDORF, IOWA, A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

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Application filed January 3, 1922.

To all 107mm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER BnNDrxnN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Davenport, Scott County,'Iowa, am the inventor of certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Box Lids, of which the following is a true, complete, and concise description.

My invention relates to lids or covers for journal boxes and the like and has as its objects the provision of a cover which shall be durable, convenient to assemble and use, and economical to manufacture. It also relates to an improved method of making such articles.

The novel features of my invention are pointed out with partioularity in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, will best be understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which,-

Fig. 1 is a plan of a journal box lid according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. l

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail illustrating one of the strips from which the eye `portions are formed as such strips appear before bending.

In the drawing, 1 is the body of the cover formed in one piece. A spring 2 is fixed to the body to hold the cover in the position in which it may be placed in use. A strap 3 assisted by the rivet 4 holds the spring in place. The rivets 5, 5 unite the strap 3 to body 1 as shown.

The body 1 is pressed from a blank of sheet steel and is substantially flat and has a downwardly extending flange 6 at each side designed to cooperate with upstanding flanges usually provided on the journal box. The fianges 6 also serve to stiffen the body of the lid. The body is further stifened by depressions 7, 7 and 7a pressed into it, and a finger piece 7b is provided projecting from the front edge of the body for lifting the cover against the spring 2.

According to my invention, the rear edge of the blank 1A (Fig. 4) from which the cover is formed is struck out to provide two spaced rearwardly extending strips, 8A, integral with the blank and adjacent the rear corners of the blank. One of these strips appears in Fig. 4. Each of the strips 8A serial No. 526,698.

lConnected to part 8 is a' fiat shelf-like p0rtion 9 adjacent the body of the blank and which extends rearwardly approximately in the plane vof the edge of rim 6. Continuing rearwardly from part 9 as viewed in Fig. 4 each strip 8^ curves downwardly as indicated at 10. The curved portion 10 connects with a flat .portion 11 which extends rearwardly in a plane parallelto the plane of body 1. At the rear edge of fiat portion 11, each strip 8A curves upwardly toward the plane of body 1 as illustrated at. 12. The curved part 12 connects in turn with the. short fiat section 13. From the part or seetion 13 each strip 8A bends sharply downward again, part `13 connecting with inclined part 14 which connects directly with the flat part 15, lying in the plane of fiat portion 11.

It will be seen, however, that parts 9 and 10 do not extend the full width of the strips. Part of the width of each strip 8A in the region of parts 9 and 10 is taken up by a trough-like indentation 9a pressed downward in the Strip and adapted to act asa stiffening flute. This fiute extends from the rear edge of inclined part 8 to the junction between curved portion 10 and the flat portion 11. A second stiffening fiute 13a is pressed in each strip 8A in the region of sec-V tions 12, 13, and 14, and extends from the rear edge of the flat part 11 to the forward edge of the fiat part 15. Flutes or indentations 95L and 13a are preferably in alinement..

After the blank 12L has been pressed up in the manner described, the strips 8A are bent upwardly and forwardly upon themselves until the flat part 13 contacts with the fiat part 9. In this operation thegparts 9 and 10 are prevented from bending owing to the stifiening effect of fiute 9A, and parts`12, 13, and 14 are prevented from bending by the flute 13a. I-Ience all the bending is concentrated in what was originally the fiat part 11 so as to forni this section into a cylindrical eye 11a. Moreover, when the fiat portions 13 contact with the fiat portions 9, inclined portions 14 contact with downwardly inclined sections 8 and the fiat parts or lips 15 overlie and contact with body 1. The fiat parts 13 and 9 are then connected together and lips l5 are connected to body l, these connections being made preferably by spot Welds as indicated at 16, 16, .but I do not limit myself to this.

It will be seen that eyes l1 forno convenient hinge sockets for the completed lid and that the channels or flutes 9a and 13a, but more especially flute 13a, stien the connection between eyes lla and body l to prevent the eyes being thrown out of proper position in any Way after the device has been placed on a car.

it will be seen that a journal box lid according* to my invention may be cheaply and readily made 'from stron?, durable 1naferial vand that .it is rigid and strong', but can be readily restored to its original shape il" deformed.

Haring Vthus described iny invention, l claim:

l. A journal-bor: lid comprising a body, and alined hinge eyes integral with said body and offset therefrom, the off-set portions intermediate said eyes and said body being of double thickness, each thickness of said off-set portions containing stiffening vflutes and the layers of each of said doubled portions being connected firmly together.

2. A journal-box lid comprising a body, and alined hinge eyes integral with said body and off-set therefrom, the off-set portions intermediate said eyes and said body being of double thickness, each thickness of said off-set portions containing` stifiening flutes and the layers of each of said intermediate doubled portion being Welded toget-her.

3. A journal-box lid comprising a body, and alined hinge eyes integral with said body and off-set thercfron'i, the oliset portions intermediate `:said eyes and said body being of double thickness and one of said thicknesses extending bacl; onto said body, oach thickness of said offset portions containing stiffening` flutes, and the layers of each of said intermediate doubled portions bei ng Welded together and said body being Welded to said overlappingr thickness.

PETER BENDXEN. 

